Sorry, guys. That cookie you just ate off the floor was covered in creepy-crawly germs that are — even now — waging war within your body. No, it doesn’t matter that you snatched it up really fast after it tumbled off the table. Turns out, the five-second rule is something your parents invented because they were too lazy to get you new Cheerios after you dumped them on the floor. …

Of all the things to make beer out of, beard hair was not one I saw coming.

White Labs — a company that produces yeast for brewing — initially tested three samples from the Oregon-based Rogue Brewery’s hopyard, and none of them were suitable to be brewed. (This is all according to Rogue Wire Service’s blog.) The surprising part was what happened after that, when White Labs decided to entertain the notion of growing yeast out of well-bearded Rogue brewmaster John Maier’s beard.